Our Profession and Other Poems

Jared Barhite
Principal of Third Ward Grammar School, Long Island City, N. Y.
PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM E. BARHITE, 270 Freeman Avenue, Long Island City, N. Y. 1895.
COPYRIGHT, 1895.
PRESS OF WEISEL, MEIER & WITTE, 109 NASSAU ST., N. Y.
During the past quarter of a century, it has been a pleasant pastime for me to obey the dictates of my feelings and inscribe them upon paper.
The present volume is a collection of these vagrant pastimes, some of which have wandered far, while others have never before appeared to any eye save the writer's.
To call them home, introduce them to each other, and properly house them, seems a parental duty.
If in them there is a thought that shall inspire others of my profession to feel the dignity and responsibility of the calling, their publication will not have been in vain.
The intent being good, the fruit cannot be evil.
The Author.
TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, WHOSE DEVOTION, ENERGY, AND PERSEVERANCE LED ME TO DRINK AT THE FOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH, UNTIL I SAW BEAUTY THEREIN, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.